To:G. M. VYAZMENSKY

Written:Written after January 22, 1913Published:First published in 1930 inLenin Miscellany XIII.

      Sent from Cracow to Berlin.

      Printed from a typewritten copy.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      page334b.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

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DearComrade,

Ishall try to fulfil your request and send you the Russian
sheets.[2]This is rather difficult now, though, and one cannot count
on too much: publishing in Russia is very poor and they arevery
reluctantto send us publications from there, although we always ask
for them. There were 2–3 sheets in St. Petersburg before 9. I. 1913.

Asregards Polish literature, you are mistaken in thinking that I am
well placed. I have no means of approach to the P.P.S. Get them through the
O.C. and the liquidators. I have no contacts with the Social-Democratic
			    “Zarzadists”[1](Rosa and Tyszka) either.

Pleasesend me for a week or soIzvestiaof the C.C.,
R.S.D.L.P., 1907, both numbers—I need them
badly.[3]I shall return them in due time.

Ienclose the letter to Comrade Kuznetsov which you asked
for.[4]

Withcomradely greetings,N. Lenin

[1]Supportersof the Executive of the Social-Democracy of the Kingdom of
Poland and Lithuania.—Ed.

[2]Lenin’sletter is a reply to that of G. M. Vyazmensky, Manager of the
Archives of the Russian Social-Democrats in Berlin, who asked Lenin to send
Polish illegal literature and all illegal publications of the R.S.D.L.P. to
stock the archives; he offered to sendIzvestiaof the C.C.,
R.S.D.L.P. for 1907 which Lenin saw during his first visit to the archives
in the summer of 1912 and which he badly needed.

[3]Izvestiaof the C.C., R.S.D.L.P.—an illegal Bolshevik
newspaper, published in St. Petersburg from July 16 (29) to October 11
(24), 1907. Three numbers were issued.

[4]Thiswas a letter of introduction by Lenin to N. V. Kuznetsov
(Sapozhkov), sent to Paris, in which Lenin apparently asked that illegal
Social-Democratic literature for the socialist archives in Berlin be handed
over to Vyazmensky. According to Vyazmensky’s report, he visited Paris in
January-February 1913 and Kuznetsov handed over to him several valuable
numbers of illegal publications by the Bolshevik committees of the Urals.